Stork Naked

A massive baby boom is happening in various parts around the world, and the stork is delivering multiple babies to these locations. At every stop he celebrates with a drink with the happy parents, resulting him to become increasingly drunk after each baby delivery.

Meanwhile, at Daffy's house, his wife Daphne is knitting a tiny sweater. He tries it on, only for Daphne to tell him it's for a new baby. Daffy, not taking to the idea of having another mouth to feed, sets up all manner of anti-stork measures in an attempt to keep the stork away; anti-aircraft guns on the roof, bear traps in the bushes, a trampoline in the fireplace, a guillotine in the doorway, and alligators in the basement. The stork tries to deliver him an egg, and somehow evades all of the traps as Daffy falls into them. Legs pop out of the egg, so the stork lets it wander into Daffy's house, and he leaves. When the egg hatches, it looks just like the stork, so Daffy flies it back to him, happy to finally give him a dose of his own medicine.

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The stork's first stop is the apartment of Mr. & Mrs. Pierce. This is a reference to longtime Termite Terrace veteran writer Tedd Pierce.
Unlike most cartoons featuring The Drunk Stork, the stork starts out sober and becomes increasingly intoxicated with every delivery due to the parents requesting to celebrate with alcoholic beverages, even though this was previously subtly hinted via the stork's dialogue in "Goo Goo Goliath".
During the scene where the stork appears behind Daffy at the radar on the roof and trying to get in the side window and the front door of the house, the stork recites a drunken slurred version of the United States Postal Service creed, with incorrect words added.
The scene where Daffy uses an umbrella to beat down the alligators in his basement from a trap door just behind his front door, Daffy shouts " Down, down, down Snapper, down Blitzen, down Prancer. Down boy!" This is a reference to Santa Clause's reindeer. For some unknown reason, the subtitles used in this scene in the Looney Tunes Collectors Choice volume 4 use the names Snapper, Hudson and Frankfurt.
Tidings is an old-fashion word meaning recent news. Since the stork says "I brought you glad tidings" while brining in the egg, it is assumed he is referencing when the angel visits the shepherds about the birth of Jesus in the Bible.
This short was included in The Bugs Bunny Mother's Day Special.
The animation of Daffy escaping the cellar hatch whilst batting down the alligators and panting after closing the hatch doors would later be used in "China Jones".
- Likewise, the guillotine gag would be repeated later in "Here Today, Gone Tamale", with Sylvester repeating the exact same "I forgot all about that silly thing!" line.
This short appeared on the fourth volume of the Looney Tunes Collector's Choice series with the widescreen ratio corrected to the regular Academy format.

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"Stork Naked" at the SFX Resource

Daffy Duck Cartoons
1937	Porky's Duck Hunt
1938	Daffy Duck & Egghead • What Price Porky • Porky & Daffy • The Daffy Doc • Daffy Duck in Hollywood
1939	Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur • Scalp Trouble • Wise Quacks
1940	Porky's Last Stand • You Ought to Be in Pictures
1941	A Coy Decoy • The Henpecked Duck
1942	Conrad the Sailor • Daffy's Southern Exposure • The Impatient Patient • The Daffy Duckaroo • My Favorite Duck
1943	To Duck .... or Not to Duck • The Wise Quacking Duck • Yankee Doodle Daffy • Porky Pig's Feat • Scrap Happy Daffy • A Corny Concerto • Daffy - The Commando
1944	Tom Turk and Daffy • Tick Tock Tuckered • Duck Soup to Nuts • Slightly Daffy • Plane Daffy • The Stupid Cupid
1945	Draftee Daffy • Ain't That Ducky • Nasty Quacks
1946	Book Revue • Baby Bottleneck • Daffy Doodles • Hollywood Daffy • The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
1947	Birth of a Notion • Along Came Daffy • A Pest in the House • Mexican Joyride
1948	What Makes Daffy Duck • Daffy Duck Slept Here • The Up-Standing Sitter • You Were Never Duckier • Daffy Dilly • The Stupor Salesman • Riff Raffy Daffy
1949	Wise Quackers • Holiday for Drumsticks • Daffy Duck Hunt
1950	Boobs in the Woods • The Scarlet Pumpernickel • His Bitter Half • Golden Yeggs • The Ducksters
1951	Rabbit Fire • Drip-Along Daffy • The Prize Pest
1952	Thumb Fun • Cracked Quack • Rabbit Seasoning • The Super Snooper • Fool Coverage
1953	Duck Amuck • Muscle Tussle • Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century • Duck! Rabbit, Duck!
1954	Design for Leaving • Quack Shot • My Little Duckaroo
1955	Beanstalk Bunny • Sahara Hare • Stork Naked • This Is a Life? • Dime to Retire
1956	The High and the Flighty • Rocket Squad • Stupor Duck • A Star Is Bored • Deduce, You Say
1957	Ali Baba Bunny • Boston Quackie • Ducking the Devil • Show Biz Bugs
1958	Don't Axe Me • Robin Hood Daffy
1959	China Jones • People Are Bunny • Apes of Wrath
1960	Person to Bunny
1961	The Abominable Snow Rabbit • Daffy's Inn Trouble
1962	Quackodile Tears • Good Noose
1963	Fast Buck Duck • The Million Hare • Aqua Duck
1964	The Iceman Ducketh
1965	It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House • Moby Duck • Assault and Peppered • Well Worn Daffy • Suppressed Duck • Corn on the Cop • Tease for Two • Chili Corn Corny • Go Go Amigo
1966	The Astroduck • Mucho Locos • Mexican Mousepiece • Daffy Rents • A-Haunting We Will Go • Snow Excuse • A Squeak in the Deep • Feather Finger • Swing Ding Amigo • A Taste of Catnip
1967	Daffy's Diner • Quacker Tracker • The Music Mice-Tro • The Spy Swatter • Speedy Ghost to Town • Rodent to Stardom • Go Away Stowaway • Fiesta Fiasco
1968	Skyscraper Caper • See Ya Later Gladiator
1980	The Yolks on You • The Chocolate Chase • Daffy Flies North • Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century
1987	The Duxorcist
1988	The Night of the Living Duck
1990	Box Office Bunny
1991	(Blooper) Bunny
1992	Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers
1995	Carrotblanca
1996	Superior Duck
2003	Attack of the Drones
2004	Daffy Duck for President
2012	Daffy's Rhapsody